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- HAAS, Pavel
Czech composer
- HÁBA, Karel
Czech composer, violist and pedagogue
- HAKEN, Eduard
Czech Basso
- HÁLA, Vlastimil
Czech composer, arranger, author of dance-, film- and incidental-music
- HARANT z Polžic, Kryštof
Czech composer of Renaissance (the day of birth is exactly unknown)
- HAVLÁK, Lubomír
Czech violinist
- HLADÍK, Radim
Czech rock guitarist, composer, producer, pedagogue
- HLAVÁČ, Jiří
Czech multiinstrumentalist
- HOLOVSKÁ, Zdena
klavíristka
- HRUBÝ, Jan
Czech rock multiinstrumentalist and composer, violinist
- HUDEČEK, Václav
houslista
- HURNÍK, Ilja
skladatel, klavírista, spisovatel a pedagog
KRYŠTOF HARANT Z POLŽIC
(* ? 1564 Klenové Castle nr. Klatovy + 21.6.1621 Prague)
Bohemian noble, composer, singer, instrumentalist and writer.
The precise date of the birth isn't know. He was studying music of Netherlandish polyphony. His compositions were performed especially at the German courts. The seven pieces survived. He took part in army in the Turkish wars 1593-97. In 1597 he set out with the knight Heřman Černín on a pilgrimage to he Holy Land and Egypt. He described his experiences in a book which contains also his six-part motet Qui confidunt in Domino (written 1598 in Jerusalem). After his return to Prague, he became valet to the Emperor Rudolf II. He served him until 1612. In 1615 he was released from his duties and he went at Pecka Castle. He kept here a musical establishment. He was converted in 1618 to neoutrquism. 1620, he took part in the Bohemian noble revolt. He was arrested and condemned to death, beheaded in the Old Town Square. His work was edited in the book Opera Musica (1956).
Bibliography R. Quoika: Christoph Harant von Poschitz und seine Zeit, in Musikforschung, pp. 414-429.
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